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AuthorHouse Never Accept Candy From Strangers Unless They Let You Ride In Their Car
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AuthorHouse Paradise Oval and Other Tallman Tales
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Tor Books Twilight Zone By Serling Carol EDT
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Forge Wily OReilly
Book SynopsisLong before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly made most readers'' acquaintance in Patrick Taylor''s bestselling novel An Irish Country Doctor, he appeared in a series of humorous columns originally published in Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour. These warm and wryly amusing vignettes provide an early glimpse at the redoubtable Dr. O''Reilly as he tends to the colourful and eccentric residents of Ballybucklebo, a cozy Ulster village nestled in the bygone years of the early sixties. Those seminal columns have been collected in The Wily O''Reilly: Irish Country Stories. In this convenient volume, Patrick Taylor''s legions of devoted fans can savor the enchanting origins of the Irish Country series . . . and newcomers to Ballybucklebo can meet O''Reilly for the very first time. An ex-Navy boxing champion, classical scholar, crypto-philanthropist, widower, and hard-working general practitioner, Fingal Flahertie O''Reilly is crafty a
£12.34
Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press Under a Glass Bell
Book SynopsisAlthough Under a Glass Bell is now considered one of Anaïs Nin’s finest collections of stories, it was initially deemed unpublishable. Refusing to give up on her vision, in 1944 Nin founded her own press and brought out the first edition, illustrated with striking black-and-white engravings by her husband, Hugh Guiler.Trade Review“The pieces in this collection belong to a peculiar genre sometimes cultivated by the late Virginia Woolf. They are half short stories, half dreams, and they mix a sometimes exquisite poetry with a homely realistic observation. They take place in a special world, a world of feminine perception and fancy…. Miss Nin is a very good artist, as perhaps none of the literary Surrealists is.” * The New Yorker *
£12.34
Random House USA Inc A Blink of the Screen
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Random House Publishing Group Collected Short Stories of Louis LAmour Volume 4
Book SynopsisUnsurpassed for sheer storytelling excitement, Louis L’Amour’s tales of adventure continue in this new paperback series. Whether joining an American captain navigating a cargo ship through pirate-infested Japanese-controlled waters during World War II or marveling at the resourcefulness of a young woman pushed to the limits of endurance as she flees a killer through a primeval forest, these adrenaline-fueled tales of mystery, suspense, murder, and survival will keep your heart pounding long after their final pages. From stories numbering just a few intense pages to novella-length works, the tales in this action-packed anthology bear all the trademarks of the master’s touch: the historical accuracy, memorable characters, and timeless themes that have earned L’Amour his unique place among American authors.
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Random House Publishing Group The Collected Short Stories of Louis LAmour
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Schocken Books Metamorphosis in the Penal Colony and Other
Book SynopsisFrom one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect. To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.”“Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find ou
£13.29
John Wiley & Sons The Witch of Goingsnake
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John Wiley & Sons Plastic Indian A Collection of Stories and Other Writings
Book SynopsisSo what does it mean to be a Cherokee?” asks Cherokee author Robert J. Conley at the start of this delightful collection of his writings. This posthumous publication, edited by the author's wife, Evelyn L. Conley, offers readers the opportunity to appreciate anew the blend of humour, candour, and creativity that makes his work so exceptional.Trade ReviewNo writer, Native or otherwise, understood Cherokee history better than Robert J. Conley. He was always able to breathe life into his characters in a particularly vivid way. His outlaws and lawmen, heroes and villains are always memorable and never one-dimensional. Every story in Plastic Indian is satisfying and complete."" - Joseph Bruchac, author of Chenoo: A Novel
£15.26
Kensington Publishing The Philip K. Dick Reader
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£17.10
Penguin Random House LLC The Saddlebag A Fable for Doubters and Seekers 15 Bluestreak
£16.25
Wildside Press Harmons Galaxy
£14.12
Wildside Press The Classic Tales of Jacques Futrelle Volume One The Thinking Machine v1 The Classic Tales of Jacques Futrelle The Thinking Machine
£13.99
Wildside Press The Spider Strain and Other Tales from the Pulps
£14.98
Wildside Press Limehouse Nights
£10.66
Wildside Press In Exile and Other Stories
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Wildside Press In Exile and Other Stories
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Wildside Press Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
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Wildside Press Light Freights
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Wildside Press Light Freights
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Wildside Press Twists Of The Tale
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Alan Rodgers Books LLC What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy Fiction Short Stories
£10.95
New Directions Publishing Corporation Weasels in the Attic
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary JapanTrade Review"Praise for Hiroko Oyamada’s previous novels: Nothing feels fixed; everything in the book might be a hallucination." -- Parul Seghal - The New York Times Book Review"Surreal and mesmerizing." -- Hilary Leichter - The New York Times"Horrific and scary, while at the same time affirming and beautiful." -- New Republic"The acclaimed author of The Factory and The Hole returns with this new installment that might be her strongest, most memorable work yet. Just like the last two titles, Weasels in the Attic is a thin book totaling less than 100 pages...The book simmers with eerie tension and bursts with unforgettable monologues" -- Yurina Yoshikawa - NPR"As in Oyamada’s earlier novels, Weasels in the Attic lingers on the grotesqueries of everyday life with a subtle, deadpan humour." -- Metropolis Japan"Eerie, mesmeric." -- Dustin Illingworth - The New York Times"The specter of snow melting, thus freeing the narrator and his wife from the mountain home in which they’re stranded, unspools deliciously backward in this consistently surprising story from one of the brightest writers in Japan. The narrative approach surfaces both clues and questions as a spring thaw does lost items." -- J. Howard Rosier - Vulture"Weasels in the Attic, the most recent of Oyamada’s works to be translated by Boyd, released in English earlier this month, teems with tropical fish and the eponymous weasels, whose lives and deaths reveal the precariousness of parenthood and family." -- Rachael Nevins - Ploughshares"The Factory, The Hole and Weasels in the Attic...flicker between mirage and deadpan realism, and lurk in the imagination like a haunting." -- Nathaniel Rich - The New York Review of Books"Hiroko Oyamada’s latest novel—coming on the heels of The Factory and The Hole—is a wonder of narrative economy and quiet suspense. At under 100 pages, it’s easy to tear through in a single sitting, but its taut, unsettling scenes will stay with you long after you put it aside. " -- Literary Hub"For a ‘fishy’ death, adorable but itchy weasel infestations, and a short, strange book you can devour (if you have room) in the midwinter fog, look no further than Weasels in The Attic. " -- Lara Delmage - Snack Magazine
£10.99
Random House Publishing Group Mosses from an Old Manse Modern Library Classics Modern Library Classics Paperback
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£17.09
Random House Publishing Group Selected Stories of H. G. Wells
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£14.99
Penguin Random House LLC The Book of the Unknown Tales of the ThirtySix
£14.24
Random House USA Inc Magic for Beginners
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£15.30
Random House USA Inc CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
Book SynopsisSince its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice. Praise for George Saunders and CivilWarLand in Bad Decline “It’s no exaggeration to say that short story master George Saunders helped change the trajectory of American fiction.”—The Wall Street Journal “Saunders’s satiric vision of America is dark and demented; it’s also ferocious and very funny.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “George Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice. [CivilWarLand in Bad Decline] is scary, hilarious, and unforgettable.”—Tobias Wolff “Saunders makes the all-but-impossible look effortless.”—Jonathan Franzen “Not since Twain has America produced a satirist this funny.”—Zadie Smith “An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times.”—Thomas Pynchon
£15.30
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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£24.87
Ohio State University Press Women Drinking Benedictine
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£16.39
Ohio State University Press My Prisoner and Other Stories
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£18.54
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Packaged Lives Ten Stories and a Novella
Book SynopsisThe carefully crafted, subtle, and humorous stories in Packaged Lives show Zangana at her best as a fiction writer. She portrays her subjects keenly, sensitively, and lovingly but without compromise. Iraqis living in exile come to life in her narratives as men and women who are caught between two worlds.
£12.30
John Wiley & Sons Sour Grapes
Book SynopsisA collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Evoking under-ripened and immature fruit, the collection’s title serves as a bittersweet metaphor for a world that possesses the seeds of change but is unprepared for the harvest.
£14.20
John Wiley & Sons A Provincial Newspaper and Other Stories
Book SynopsisWhen the young narrator of Miriam Karpilove’s A Provincial Newspaper leaves New York to work for a new Yiddish newspaper in Massachusetts, she expects to be treated with respect as a professional writer. Instead, she finds herself underpaid and overworked.Trade ReviewThese wonderful and unique stories describe a Jewish world rarely seen in Yiddish letters, a world of women writers and dreamers. Kirzane’s translations bring these stories to life for the contemporary reader." - Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University"An important work of feminist excavation that is so much more fun than that phrase implies, giving us a chance to read the words of a lively, complex writer in her prime. Kirzane’s translation makes the Yiddish inflections sing with life, and made me feel a warm connection to a writerly foremother I barely knew before." - Sarah Seltzer, executive editor, Lilith MagazineTable of Contents Acknowledgments Translator’s Note Introduction Part 1. A Provincial Newspaper Part 2. My Three Years in the Land of Israel Part 3. Other Stories A Marriage and a Divorce In a Country Town Just Like the Young Folks Do Man and Radio Perfectly Suited A Promise Kept Victims of Love They Both Were Married Good News—and Bad We’re People, After All From the Same Yikhes A Clever Mother Old Sarah The Old Man Ran Away A Kosher Swimming Pool (A Scene in Coney Island) The Shadkhn She Was in Paris The Invitation For a Bit of Respect Glossary
£20.66
University of Georgia Press Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories
Book SynopsisA collection of linked stories that follows four generations of the Songs, a Korean American family, beginning in 1924 just prior to the Immigration Act and extending to near the end of the century. Through this story cycle, patterns emerge as cultural identity and individuality, often in tension with one another, shape choices and outcomes.Trade ReviewWaiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories, Carol Roh-Spaulding’s uniquely linked collection of stories and one novella, follows three generations of the Song family, beginning with the family’s emigration from Korea to California shortly before the 1924 Immigration Act. Decade by decade, with shifting perspectives, Waiting for Mr. Kim lays out what it means to be a daughter and what it means to be a mother, what it means to be an immigrant, what it means to be an Asian-American woman in this country. The reader first meets Grace—whose perspective threads through many of the stories—via her older sister, a ghost narrator who died tragically and whose death haunts these stories. In the novella that ends the collection, Grace is a grandmother caring for the son of her estranged daughter and is also an older woman embracing desire and love. Roh-Spaulding’s prose is gorgeous and lyrical, at other times quiet and restrained, always beautifully precise. Waiting for Mr. Kim is the collection that we have been waiting for, whether we knew it or not." - Lori Ostlund author of After the Parade
£20.85
Ohio University Press Out of the Mountains
Book SynopsisMeredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains is a collection of thirteen short stories set in contemporary Appalachia. Firmly grounded in place, the stories voyage out into the conflicting cultural identities that native Appalachians experience as they balance mainstream and mountain identities.Willis’sTrade Review“Appalachian stories need not feature ‘a granny woman’ and be set in the past. Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories by West Virginia native Meredith Sue Willis is a collection to prove the point. It's (twelve) stories are set in the milieu of the 21st century and explore current issues familiar not to just Appalachians but to contemporary readers everywhere. Her timely stories ring true and are often humorous.… She is one of the true voices of Appalachia in print today.” * West Virginia Book Festival: The Blog *“(Willis’s) characters possess a conversational familiarity, and the reader feels absorbed into the small community that is both distinctly Appalachian and markedly universal. This finely crafted collection is worth reading twice to discover all its intricacies and connections.” * Booklist *“I love this collection because it is not just about the rich, full heritage of the Appalachian past, but about how contemporary people from the mountains deal with moving out or moving on.… The stories from Out of the Mountainsmake me wish I knew these people; I probably do.” * “Around Cincinnati,” WVXU *“Character-driven and contemporary, the stories mirror situations we know.… As a writer (Willis) uses the imagination of her heart to explore her cultural heritage from many vantage points.” * Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine *“Pick up this book and read it a story at a time. Meet Willis’ people and understand the issues they face. You won’t be the same after you do.” * The Advocate (Baton Rouge) *“Meredith Sue Willis writes sparkling, masterful stories, grounded in the wisdom of place, musical in their voices and cadences, and truly joyful in their understanding of the power of words. Reader, enter in!”“In Out of the Mountains, Meredith Sue Willis gives her characters the juice of life. Some turn up in more than one story, prompting the pleasure of recognition. Willis writes about people from Appalachia’s West Virginia corner, where she herself comes from, and about people from New York, where she lives now, with a smattering of folks from elsewhere. They’re all alive on the page.…Grade: A-” * CityBeat (Cincinnati) *“What does connect the stories is a sense of displacement and restlessness—insiders who leave the mountains to live elsewhere and outsiders who come to the mountains. There’s a tension between belonging and not belonging, of insider vs. outsider, of rural vs. urban, of traditional customs vs. new ways.” * In This Light blog *“The words have a precision to them, swift and clear and vivid, infinitely correct brush strokes that make tiny adjustments to the color of the story. And there is not a wasted word. You think you aren’t reading about Appalachia, but you are. Without your knowing, Meredith Sue Willis paints Appalachia on your heart.”“The Appalachian stories in Meredith Sue Willis’s Out of the Mountains are lively, funny, and, in good mountain tradition, sometimes a little bizarre. Willis uses her characters to show the ways people work out the conflict between what they desire and what they get. Alert to the edgy personal and political tensions between ambition and reward, between longing and satisfaction, these stories offer up essential human conflicts wisely and with a lot of heart.”“You wish you knew the people who inhabit the stories of Meredith Sue Willis. In fact, you do know them! And Willis’s scope, from Emma Goldman to a dying West Virginian who drives his truck into a New England lake, is breathtaking.”“These stories are memorable and moving. Meredith Sue is so adept at capturing the fine points of Appalachian culture, and she’s especially good at depicting culture clashes and the difficulties of native Appalachians who try to balance both mainstream and mountain identities. The contrasts between rural Appalachian and urban Jewish cultures are depicted very vividly in ‘Elvissa Did Not Become a Rabbi.’ The conflict between family loyalty and church-sanctioned homophobia was wonderfully portrayed in ‘Fellowship of Kindred Minds.’ Even in ‘Big Boss Is Back,’ Meredith Sue examines the cultural contrast between long-time natives of the region and newcomers. I actually taught this story in my graduate fiction workshop, and several of the students commented on the superb metaphor Meredith Sue uses when she says that ‘what Dr. and Mrs. Siefert were putting down was less like roots and more like the little feet English ivy uses to hang onto bricks.’”
£51.58
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Speculations about Jakob Uwe Johnson v 91 German Library S
Book SynopsisA collection of the work of Uwe Johnson. It includes "Speculations about Jakob", a Faulknerian novel; selections from "Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; and the writer's essay on the "Anniversaries".Table of ContentsIntroduction: Alexander Stephan Translated by Jan van Heurck Speculations about Jakob Translated by Ursule Molinaro Trip into the Blue, 1960 Translated by John Cumming How Anniversaries Came to Be Written Translated by Jan van Heurck From Anniversaries Translated by Leila Vennewitz From Anniversaries II Translated by Leila Vennewitz and Walter Arndt
£130.00
Transworld Publishers Ltd Festive Spirits
Book SynopsisThe perfect Christmas gift: three festive tales from the brilliant pen of Kate Atkinson.''Lucy would have challenged anyone not to cry at the sight of their child in a Nativity play. Even a sheepish Maude, even a scowling Beatrice currently attempting a Chinese burn on an adjacent angel. A shepherd shouted something incomprehensible to Joseph. One of the Wise Men wet himself. Beatrice waved enthusiastically a little too enthusiastically at Lucy from the angelic choir. It was better than any religion, Lucy thought.''From the Costa Award-winning author of LIFE AFTER LIFE
£9.49
Little, Brown Book Group A Model Childhood Virago Modern Classics
Book SynopsisThis novel is a testament of what seemed at the time a fairly ordinary childhood, in the bosom of a normal Nazi family in Landsberg. Other work by the author includes The Quest for Christa and No Place on Earth .Trade ReviewA MODEL CHILDHOOD delves painfully into the German past... The honesty, the apalling hindsight-driven ironies, the cool searching narrative: this art of a major writer offers just a glimmer, just the faintest apalled glimmer, of comprehension as to how it could all have grown, how it could have happened... the horror which so deformed Europe's recent past. * SCOTSMAN *A piercing account of the inner lives of artists at a time of great social change. * THE TIMES *A vivid testimony. * THE MAIL ON SUNDAY *
£23.52
North Point Press Orientation
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City Lights Books notesofadirtyoldman
Book SynopsisBukowski takes on the guise of the wise fool in this novel, describing the futility and beauty of life.
£11.99
City Lights Books The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Book SynopsisThis collection of stories, now surfaced from the literary underground, include such tales as "Ten Jack-offs", "My Big-Assed Mother" and "A Lovely Love Affair".Table of ContentsThe most beautiful woman in town; kid stardust on the porterhouse; life in a Texas whorehouse; six inches; the fuck machine; the gut-wringing machine; 3 women; 3 chickens; ten jack-offs; twelve flying monkeys who won't copulate properly; 25 bums in rags; non-horseshit horse advice; another horse story; the birth, life and death of an underground newspaper; life and death in the charity ward; the day we talked about James Thurber; all the great writers; the copulating mermaid of Venice, California; trouble with a battery; swastika; politics is like trying to screw a cat in the ass; my big-assed mother; the beginner; the fiend; the murder of Ramon Vasquez; a drinking partner; the white beard; a white pussy.
£11.99
August House Barking At a Foxfur Coat
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£14.24
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Sf the Other Side of Realism Essays on Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
£18.95
University Press of the Pacific Shadowed Paths
£23.28
James A. Rock & Company Publishers Max and Moritz and Other Bad Boy Tales
£999.99
